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tants of this Province, whereby it is Enacted, " That the several
Companies of the said 500 Men, or such Part of them as shall be at
any Time raised, shall be Mustered Monthly, while they remain in
the Province, and that the Commissary shall always Close the
Muster Roll of each Company, upon the Place where, and the Day
when, the Muster thereof shall be taken."
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 50
April 24
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Your Committee further observe, that of the 14 Recruits, which
by the Report last Session are said not to be entered on any the
preceding Muster Rolls, the following 8 Persons appear on the
September Rolls, viz. John Day, John White, Samuel Powell,
Thomas Pedworth, William Jennings, John Cole, James McNeil, and
Robert Chilton; and the following 6 Persons, the Remainder of the
said 14 Recruits, viz. John Carroll, Joseph Jones, George Laws,
William Brown, William Lay, and Charles Dorsey, do not appear
to have been entered on any Muster Roll submitted to the Ex-
amination of your Committee.
Your Committee also Report, that from the Entries in, and
Certificates endorsed on, the said Muster Rolls, it appears (except
in very few Instances) that the same Persons, who by the preceding
Muster Rolls, are said to have gone on Party and Detachment in
April, are by the several subsequent Rolls down to the 8th Day of
October last, certified to be employed in the same Manner, without
any Notice taken of their Return, or having been Relieved by Others ;
from which Circumstance, your Committee cannot help expressing
it as their Opinion, that those Troops were not stationed at such
Places, and Employed in such Services, as would contribute most
to the Quiet and Safety of our Frontier Inhabitants, and that one
Third Part of the said 500 Men, or so many of them as have been at
any Time in Pay of this Province, have not been Employed in Rang-
ing about the Frontier thereof for the Quiet and Protection of the
Inhabitants; but at what Place or in what Service, those Troops said
to be on Detachment and Party, were Stationed or Employed, does
not appear from any of the Muster Rolls, or other Papers, laid before
your Committee.
Your Committee beg leave to represent to the Honourable House,
that in the Victualling Account, there is a Charge of 9 pence p Day
Subsistence for 4 Women for each Company, which we humbly
conceive is not Warranted by any Act of Assembly of this Province ;
but the like, or a larger Number, being, as we are informed, Allowed
in his Majesty's Regular Forces, we are of Opinion the Charge is
reasonable. And in the Hospital Account there is a Charge of £12.19.
paid to Dr. David Ross for the Subsistence of 518 Days of sick
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p. 102
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